Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) has announced its 2021 winners, and it includes magnificent images across different categories and from all over the world. This year’s overall winner is Svetlana Melik-Nubarov, and her work sure is thought-provoking. In the series titled Our Past, she reflects on the dangers of propaganda often imposed from early childhood. Svetlana Melik-Nubarova took the main prize in the Professional category. She said about her series:...

We already know selfies often go hand in hand with recklessness and stupidity. Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama felt this on her own skin. Only a few days after opening her exhibition, one of her highly-valued pumpkin sculptures was damaged – because of a selfie. The exhibition “Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors” was opened in Washington, DC’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on February 23. It quickly became the most popular exhibition in the museum’s history, with more than 8,000 visitors in four days....

In 2014, curator Simon Njami engaged Ethiopian artist-photographer Aïda Muluneh to interpret Dante’s Inferno for an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art entitled The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists. Muluneh’s “The 99 Series” featured a model set against a light grey mottled background, with her body and face covered in white paint, and her hands dipped in red. In this episode of the PhotoShelter podcast Vision Slightly Blurred, Sarah Jacobs and Allen Murabayashi discuss the plagiarism of Aïda Muluneh’s work....

On 1 April, Baltimore officials officially approved that this city’s police can use surveillance drones. Equipped with hi-res cameras, these drones would reportedly be used to spy on the citizens. As probably expected, this caused quite a stir. And now, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against the Baltimore police over the use of this invasive surveillance program. The surveillance program is a result of a recently approved deal between the Baltimore Police Department and Ohio-based company Persistent Surveillance Systems, The Root writes....

Most of us know Instagram as a photo-sharing app. However, it’s been a while since it has become more than that and we’ve all witnessed the constant changes. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, recently said it out loud: Instagram is no longer a photo-sharing app. He explained that the company is focusing on other things and trying to become… well, a little bit of everything. Mosseri shared a short video to his Instagram and Twitter, explaining the plans for the future of the app....